The professionalization (some say privatization) of cricket has yielded some unexpected benefits. Firstly, folks are being held responsible for bad performance. That is such a good thing to see in Indian cricket, which is used to just passing around the buck. The well publicized firing of the CEO of the Bangalore Royal Challengers - Charu [...]

So, the Kings XI Punjab have registered their 5th straight win to move to the 2nd position on the table. We’re nearly halfway through the tournament, and the league table is looking very very interesting. So the three most expensive teams in the league are taking the bottom 3 spots. The cheapest team, the Rajasthan [...]

The tournament which began with a one man show by Brendon McCullum, on April 18, has seen some typical, hard fought T20 matches. Raise of low profile teams, especially Team Jaipur (Rajasthan Royals) has surprised everybody. Not to forget those teams which were expected to do better, have faded off with most prominent example being that of [...]

When the IPL Twenty20 tournament kicked off, a lot of the cricketing experts and pundits (including us :P) predicted that the Twenty20 format would increase the demand for all-rounders. The thinking was that every player in the playing 11 will be valuable in the quick-fire style of play, and the more a player can do, [...]

It’ been almost 2 weeks since the IPL kicked off, but the intense competition has already seen the rise of a few unique strategies in this format of the game. Here’s some of new strategies and tactics I’ve noticed the players using:

1) The Wicketkeeper’s job has become more difficult
The wicketkeeper is facing all kinds of [...]

The Vijay Mallya owned Bangalore IPL franchise, The Royal Challengers, have roped in New Zealand’s legendary captain Martin Crowe to be the “Chief Cricket Officer”, whatever that means. The Indian team’s Venkatash Prasad has also signed up to the be coach.
What kind of stratergy is Mallya looking at for the Royal Challangers? We reported earlier [...]